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Hi there!, I've been doing some Umineko Illustrations, a set where i'm going to depict every human Ushiromiya in pairs. This were the first, Beato & Battler and Shannon & Kanon. Tell me, what do you think?

*looks around empty forum* No love for Umineko Day (10/4)? Ah well, I guess I may as well post what I've been working on.

I've started on a Umineko PV for the Vocaloid song Justice Breaker. I heard it a while back and it reminded me of EP7. (Except for all the "watashi"s and "kimi"s - Will don't talk like that.) But the general message of "Stop whining, stand up, life is what you make it," fit to me... However this is all assuming I interpreted the song correctly...

It's really, really rough right now, and I'm no artist (No, really. I don't draw at all.), but I couldn't resist giving it a shot. And it's been fun! But I'm exhausted. It's taken me forever to do this much already.

I don't think it belongs in the video thread until it's an actual video.

Also - semi relevant - uu uu, look at what Mama got me today!
It's a cake pop shaped like a pumpkin. We went to a bakery today for the heck of it and I asked my mom for one. She can be the BEST MOM EVER sometimes. No, she didn't hit me. Sorry for the bad image quality - all I have is this webcam.

Question: is the Featherine CG supposed to have a static-like square? It might have been that the download failed, but there's one on mine.

That's probably from Background Cgsv2. No harm in saying it because all links are down like the site it was hosted on. It's there in the original, even after 3 attempts to correctly get it. Short of getting a blu-ray drive for my computer so I can try it on a different disk, that's how it is.

There's still a few things that I'm disappointed about, but beggars can't be choosers. Just my thoughts:

Spoiler for EP7:

Why no sprite/image of Clair holding her white sword? I remember reading about her having one. Why does everyone forget about that? That was cool. And Yasu naturally doesn't get a sprite, but I understand that.

Spoiler for EP8:

And there is no CG for Will headbutting the goat, or anything major for that whole "crowd vs the goats" scene (as far as I see.). Maybe just because that was the end of the first half of the Witch Hunt patch, but that scene really stuck in my mind. I was expecting more for it.

EP8's is called ep805 and the few past it. EP7's is ep702 (sans sword, it's toward the end of the scene.

I posted this over in the Higurashi forum but I thought I'd share it here as well.

I'm currently reading the Higurashi VN decided to flip through the RAWs of the manga while I was at it. As I’m reading along, I noticed a certain familiar face…I thought it might be a coincidence at first until I realized it wasn’t just his appearance, but his name as well. The artist of the manga decided to make a certain bodyguard appear as Hibari 13, one of the Yamainu who fights the club members in Matsuribayashi-hen - Amakusa (because Hibari 13, and Juuza = 十三 = 13).

Considering Amakusa’s past military history included working for the Self-Defense Force and he’s loyal to Okonogi (who is almost definitely the same Okonogi from Higurashi), I thought this was absolutely brilliant of the manga artist and adds some nice - and very plausible - backstory to the character. I couldn’t resist my desire to translate these pages, since the Matsuribayashi-hen scanlation project will probably never be finished, AND the official English releases aren’t even this far yet. This is from Vol. 7 of the Higurashi Matsuribayashi-hen manga, during the battle between the club members and the Yamainu on the mountain.

Since I can’t read kanji, the way I’m doing this is to read the furigana and romanize how the sentence is read. Then, I punch those words into Tangorin and find the ones that match the kanji in the panels. Then it’s a combination of Google Translate, my memory of the way the scene played out in the VN, and common sense of the English language to put it all together. So, forgive me if the translation isn’t perfect - I just thought this was an interesting scene that both Higurashi and Umineko fans would appreciate, and wanted to share.

My translation notes can be found here. Let me know if I got anything wrong and I’ll be happy to fix it.